We gotta get a song done!" After another version was complete, which they pretended to fade down as a record would conclude, John exclaimed, "All right, 'Take one,' Jack, take it over now!" Interestingly, when they start acting silly in between renditions, Paul imitates George Martin by saying, "Now, come on, chaps. Paul would sing in unison with John during the choruses, the phrases " Look out!" and " Get down!" being included each time. Only the first verse was composed at this point (John mistakenly singing " sailed into the sea" instead of " sun" at one point), this verse probably being co-written that day. Right, you can play on your track and I'll play on mine."Īfter mistakenly beginning the song in 3/4 as he had done in his previous demo, John changes to 4/4 as they had previously decided and, with Paul accompanying him on acoustic guitar, make it through a couple renditions of the song. Changing the song to a 4/4 time signature, John played acoustic guitar and did the singing during the verses, reading (and sometimes mis-reading) the lyrics from a lyric sheet that they undoubtedly worked on together, Paul insisting that John be the vocalist, explaining "you know how to sing it." Before John begins one of his run-throughs, John complains that he can't see the lyric sheet from where he was sitting, prompting Paul to bring it closer and then ask his near-sighted partner, "can you read that?", to which he replies, "yeah, I can read it okay now, Paul. Shortly thereafter, most likely during a songwriting session at John's home in Weybridge, John and Paul recorded another demo where they merged John's verse idea with Paul's chorus idea. I remember thinking that a children’s song would be quite a good idea and I thought of images, and the color yellow came to me, and a submarine came to me, and I thought, ‘Well, that’s kind of nice, like a toy, very childish yellow submarine.’" The catchy chorus of the song appears to have been written by Paul, as he explains in his 1997 book "Many Years From Now." "I was laying in bed in the Ashers’ garret, and there’s a nice twilight zone just as you’re drifting into sleep and as you wake from it I always find it quite a comfortable zone, you’re almost asleep, you’ve laid your burdens down for the day and there’s this little limbo-land just before you slip into sleep. There exists an early demo by Lennon made approximately in March of 1966 that contains the familiar verse melody and chords but played in 3/4 time, this including the lyrics, " In the town where I was born / no one cared, no one cared." This appears to be the beginnings of what became the song "Yellow Submarine." Yeah." John then added, "And it made sense to make it into.with Ringo in mind." Since The Beatles were to be receiving an Ivor Novello award for the song three days later and they were not available to be there in person to receive it, Brian Matthew addressed John: "Earlier before we started recording, you said it was in effect written as two separate songs." Lennon confirmed, "Yeah, I seem to remember, like, the submarine.the chorus bit, you coming in with it," to which Paul agreed "yeah." John then asked Paul, "And wasn't the other bit something that I had already going, and we put them together?" Paul answered, "Well, yeah. The earliest Beatles interview regarding the authorship of "Yellow Submarine" was on March 20th, 1967 during a recorded interview with Brian Matthew at EMI Studios. The result became the only British Beatles single to feature Ringo as lead vocalist, a track that the singer would forever be linked with as his ultimate "claim to fame." And with the song eventually becoming the title track of their highly successful animated motion picture, “Yellow Submarine” will probably always be known as the singer’s most noteworthy accomplishment. They even enlisted friends and loved ones to help in the recording process. Who would ever have thought that the “Lennon / McCartney” songwriting team would compose a song for Ringo to sing that was deemed good enough to be released as a single? In fact, enthusiasm was high (quite possibly in the chemical sense as well) while it was being recorded, much time being spent in getting it just right. The resulting ‘Ringo track’ would be buried somewhere on the album to satisfy the demands of fans who desired to hear their favorite Beatle at the microphone. The time spent in the recording studio working on the song would always be minimal as well. When the third option was chosen, the composition was admittedly never of the same caliber as one they would sing themselves and definitely not one that would be intended for release as a single. Sometimes a cover song was chosen for him, sometimes he himself chose a cover song to perform, and sometimes a song was written especially for him by John and/or Paul. Supplying a song for Ringo to sing on every Beatles album was not ever much of a priority.
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